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Inspired by Wouters How Bad Is Link Rot At Brain Baking?, I just did a little experiment to estimate the number or broken links on my site. Turns out: luckily not too bad. Of 409 links I consider seven to be broken. Two of them caused by the death of the bird site, one youtube video taken down because of copyright claims, one article that was unpublished on an otherwise still maintained site, two sites went completely offline and one broken link is a fixable copy-and-paste error in the URL (ends on .html and not .htm). So, overall somewhere between 1 and 2 percent. Important take-away: not all de-facto broken links come in the form of 404s.